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Descripción: This is a highly first draft of a picture dictionary for ancient Greek. There are lots of features missing, which I do have locally but am not ready to share quite yet. The idea here is that one ca...

This is a highly first draft of a picture dictionary for ancient Greek. There are lots of features missing, which I do have locally but am not ready to share quite yet. The idea here is that one can create a visual tool for a language that has not traditionally had such tools. The other idea is that this tool can be made using authentic materials (i.e. pictures of locations and cultural artifacts that directly relate to ancient Greece).
If you spot an error: please don't be afraid to drop me a line. It's digital and easy to fix.
If you recognize your photo and don't see a credit: give me time. I've got a list of who needs what credit. When I get a document that's a bit more ready to go, you'll get proper credit.

This work is being made available under a Creative Commons
Attribution­NonCommercial­NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Some portions are
under a less­restrictive license and are thus available on the credits page.. This license has
been chosen not to keep you from making money off of it, but because the work itself is
in early stages of development and I would not like to unleash that on the world without
anyone knowing exactly who made the mistakes. I would rather have this work available
for you in a very incomplete state rather than to keep it locked away until it is 100%
ready for publication. Share­alike sections shall be shared alike by edition 0.2 (hopefully
summer 2016).

Glossaries…………………………………………………………..TK
100 most frequent words in Greek
Words by topic
Words in alphabetical order

Introduction

I don’t teach Ancient Greek, but I wish I did. I wish it so strongly
that my graduate thesis was about introductory textbooks for Ancient
Greek. One of the things I realized in my research is that there is very little
in the way of materials that are oriented toward visual learners. (Yeah,
there are pictures in the books, but not anything at all like a modern
language textbook.)
So I set out to fix that problem in some small degree. What you
have on your computer screen or in your hand is a very rough draft of that
solution. There are doubtless problems and mistakes in this book. I’d love
to hear from you about them. I believe in incremental improvement and
have no ego about being told I’ve made a mistake.
I have also tried to do two things with the pictures. The first is
pedagogical. I selected Greek settings and ancient Greek cultural products
for the images in the picture dictionary. If, as language teachers, we wish
to convey the target culture in the most accurate way possible, we should
use authentic materials. These materials are somewhat lacking for
antiquity. I have no time machine to go back and catch 5th Century BCE
Athenians going about their business, so the next best is their
archaeological remains and art.
The second thing is that I have also tried to find sources of these
materials as close to the public domain as possible, which has not proven
easy. Though I am a big believer in open and shareable cultural products,
this one is not as open as I would like. Why? My intention is to get this
ready for publication both digitally and in print. At its current stage of
development, it is still nowhere near ready for that kind of The current
edition has been produced on a Cromebook, so if there are any design

infelicities I beg you to forgive them. If there are doubts about the power
of the Chromebook, look no further.
Peter Sipes
pete@pluteopleno.com

These words are drawn from the ​
Dickinson College Commentaries
core vocabulary list for Greek​
. Major estimates that the top 65 words
account for 50% of text coverage, though getting to 80% coverage takes
about 1,100 to 1,200 words. Here are the 100 most frequent in alphabetical
order. Words marked with * are included in the illustrated pages.

These are the words in the picture dictionary according to the
headword on each page. Accordingly, some topics will have more words
than others. A digital version of this glossary with slightly expanded
information on frequency can be found ​
here​
.
Please note that this glossary is not complete. Use at your own risk